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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
This is fine as long as there is room to accomplish this. Using Mountain Road as an example (again), it is a relatively narrow four lane stroad with no on street parking. There is really no potential for widening this road, so any move to add bike lanes would only result in reducing the number of traffic lanes on the road.
I know your response to this would be "good!!!", but Mountain Road is congested as it is during rush hours and any reduction in travel lanes would only result in increasing congestion and unhappy voters. It is a non starter.
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Just as adding lanes has been shown to induce demand rather than reduce traffic problems, removing them has shown the opposite – traffic drops and the predicted gridlock never materializes.
Typically speaking the combination of a two lane road plus a centre turning lane has about the same capacity as a four land road. So there's certainly opportunities to strategically reconfigure lanes without reducing roadway capacity.
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